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A quiet revolution is unfolding in London. In a small, determined startup, years of relentless effort have given birth to a breakthrough in digital health. The Value Care Group, a company built on four decades of frontline care experience, has spent two years engineering what many believed was impossible. Today, that vision becomes reality. Mica, [...]
Longevity author and pioneer Peter Attia has co-founded a new US health and diagnostics clinic which aims to advance human lifespan. Biograph, co-founded with John Hering, has opened what it calls “the world’s most advanced preventative health and diagnostics clinic” in the San Francisco Bay Area with plans to expand globally and open its second [...]
A new UK service aimed at supporting older people who are starting to become frail, could reduce emergency hospital admissions by more than a third and save the NHS money. The results from the clinical trial, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), evaluated the effect [...]
A new study of nearly a million emergency admissions in Norway has found increased mortality in the elderly who live in the countryside compared to those that live in the city. Research shows that elderly people living in rural areas have higher mortality rates if they are discharged to a municipality under pressure. Additionally, the [...]
Hundreds of NHS patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease are set to benefit from a wearable drug infusion to help better control their symptoms. The treatment, called foslevodopa–foscarbidopa, is gradually released around-the-clock, and will now offer an additional option for certain patients experiencing movement-related symptoms and whose condition is no longer responding to their oral medicines. [...]
A new USC study shows how cycles of a fasting-mimicking diet reduce insulin resistance, liver fat, immune system aging, and biological age in clinical trial patients. The study, published in Nature Communications, adds to the body of evidence supporting the beneficial effects of the fasting-mimicking diet (FMD). The FMD is a five-day diet high in [...]
A regimen of pre-surgical immunotherapy and chemotherapy followed by post-surgical immunotherapy significantly improved lung cancer survival rates, according to a new study. This was compared to the use of chemotherapy alone for patients with operable non-small cell lung cancer. The findings of the Phase III trial by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson [...]
The thymus, a small and relatively unknown organ, may play a bigger role in the immune system of adults than was previously believed, according to a recent study. Researchers from Linkoping University in Sweden have found that with age, the glandular tissue in the thymus is replaced by fat and the level of its degeneration [...]
More than two-thirds (67%) of GPs in the United Kingdom would like to be able to prescribe assistive technology to their dementia patients, according to new research. The Longevity.Technology poll found family doctors were especially keen to see more tech designed to help patients to maintain their independence. Nearly nine in 10 (88%) GPs think [...]
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